Esther 4:4

Modern English Version

So the young women of Esther and her eunuchs came and told her of it. The queen was then seized by anguish. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he could remove his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

Cross References

Genesis 37:35

All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “For I will go down into the grave mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

2 Kings 9:32

And he lifted up his face toward the window and said, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down to him.

Esther 1:12

But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by his eunuchs. Therefore, the king grew very angry, and his wrath burned within him.

Esther 4:3

In each and every province where the king’s command and his decree came there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther 4:5

So Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to attend her, and commanded him concerning Mordecai to learn what this was about and why.

Psalm 77:2

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; in the night my hand was stretched out without ceasing; my soul refused to be comforted.

Isaiah 56:3

Do not let the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying, “The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”; do not let the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Jeremiah 31:15

Thus says the Lord: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted for her children, because they are no more.

Acts 8:27

So he rose up and went. And there was a man of Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in command of her entire treasury. He had come to Jerusalem to worship.

1 Samuel 8:15

And of your seed fields and your vineyards he will take one-tenth of their harvest and will give it to his high officials and to his servants.